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After more than one year into the Dukascoin staking program, Dukascopy Bank is appraising the results as a very good start. 325 staking deposits for the total value of 855,120 Dukascoins (0.72 deposits per day since the launch of the project) demonstrate that the first cryptocurrency by a Swiss bank has received careful attention from the clients. Moreover, many users have already renewed their stakings for the second year.

However, the project does not stand still. The Bank has prepared a number of great surprises for this year. The first of them is to be announced right now! Starting from June 1, the staking program will be extended to add 3-month staking deposits. New terms will work for both types of rewards – coin and fiat. The Bank believes that the shorter-term staking proposal will be particularly attractive for traders willing to have their free capital work while preserving the comfortable level of liquidity.

The Bank will pay as much as EUR 0.10 per coin as a reward for fiat staking deposits, which yields 7.3% return per quarter at the current DUK+ price of EUR 1.37. Coin reward for the coming quarter for a 3-month staking deposit of 10,000 DUK+ will be as high as 12.5%, or 1,250 DUK+.

Dukascopy Bank increases its eligible capital by CHF 9.48 million (up to CHF 46.09 million) with a profit for the first three months of 2020 (after review of interim financial statement as of 31 March 2020 performed by KPMG SA). The condensed interim balance sheet and condensed income statement is available via this link.

Dukascopy Bank continues to demonstrate effectiveness, reliability and high performance in the conditions of turbulence on financial markets and the COVID-19 pandemic. April's profit continues this growth trend, ending the month with 969 000 CHF.

Dukascopy Bank would like to remind current and potential participants of the Dukascoin reward programs that starting from 1st of June, 2020 reward rates for new coin reward staking deposits will be reduced by 10% from current levels. The new income schedule will remain deposit size dependent and be represented as follows:

1 000 deposited Dukascoins - 20% coin reward;

2 000 - 30%;

3 000 - 40%;

4 000 - 50%;

5 000 - 60%;

7 500 - 70%;

10 000 - 80%.

The Bank guarantees that the following reduction will not affect deposits allocated before 1st of June, 2020. For those who are considering joining the coin reward program with current lucrative rates there are 3 weeks left to decide!

Dukascopy Europe introduces new instruments on MT4 accounts. The list of products includes CFDs on indices, bonds, commodities and a number of new exotic FX pairs. With this update, the total number of instruments in MT4 is increased from 41 to 96. The full list with 500+ instruments including FX, Metals, CFDs on commodities, indices, single stocks and bonds are available in our professional JForex3 trading platform.

Dukascopy resumes trading on LIGHT.CMD and cancels the "close only" restriction put in place on 21 April.

As of Monday, 04 May at 10:00 GMT clients will once again be able to open new positions on LIGHT.CMD.
Maximum exposure is limited to 650 contracts, a leverage of 1:5 will be applied to all accounts, including clients that presently have existing positions.

The measures will remain in place until further notice.
The above mentioned measures concern both Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe.

Due to the limitations applied on the LIGHT.CMD/USD liquidity flow by certain counterparties amidst the extremely volatile market conditions, Dukascopy Bank is temporarily constraining trading on that instrument for its clients. Starting from the publication of this announcement traders won’t be able to increase their exposures in LIGHT.CMD/USD.

At this stage the Bank is not imposing compulsory closure of existing positions. However, clients are informed about the possible price feed interruptions and reduced liquidity during eventual position closure attempts.

The restriction on exposure increase is entering into force immediately for clients of Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe and is to remain effective until further notice.

Considering the dramatic volatility of Oil prices and risk of its trading with negative values or close to zero, Dukascopy Bank announces its intention to further change Oil related margin trading conditions.

The Bank informs its clients in advance, that further leverage reduction could be introduced to 1:5 for CFDs on Oil should the price of BRENT.CMD/USD or LIGHT.CMD/USD reach of 10 USD. Taking in account the current volatility, such changes may happen unpredictably and suddenly and Dukascopy Bank will be forced to implement a reduced leverage with immediate effect.

Dukascopy is asking clients to consider the above mentioned information while managing their positions and trading accounts. Also Dukascopy warns that should BRENT.CMD/USD or LIGHT.CMD/USD prices continue to drop and reach 5 USD, Dukascopy may further reduce the leverage depending on the situation (including to the level 1:1 or even temporary disabling further trading for CFDs on Oil).

Oil prices have become strongly affected by political decisions and rumors recently, resulting in a significant increase of volatility and heightened probability of large price gaps. The bank expects nervous market reactions to any decision of upcoming OPEC+ session. In order to reduce risks, particularly the possibility of negative equity, Dukascopy Bank is temporarily reducing leverage on oil CFDs (BRENT.CMD/USD, LIGHT.CMD/USD and DIESEL.CMD/USD) to 1:10.

The leverage reduction measure will be applied in two steps:
• For clients with no open positions in the instruments concerned the change will be done today (Wednesday. 8.04.2020) at 15:00 GMT.
• For clients with open exposure in any of the three instruments named, the reduced leverage will come into force on Thursday 9.04.2020 at 7:30 GMT.

We invite all traders with open positions in the instruments concerned to evaluate if additional measures such as reducing their exposure or addition of funds is needed.

Market behavior and market movements have dramatically changed in the course of the spread of COVID-19 global pandemic in the past weeks. Actions of governments have become unpredictable and Central Banks aim to fight expected bankruptcies and rising unemployment.
This all causes reduction of liquidity from market participants and ongoing increased daily volatility.

These are the reasons for Dukascopy to reduce leverage for commodities, indexes and precious metals to 1:30. The leverage policy for other trading instruments remains unchanged.
The change will come in force as of today at 18:00 GMT (time of usual over-the weekend leverage reduction) and stay in force until further notice.

Dukascopy Bank SA is proud to announce that the bank has reached the finals in two categories in the Technical Analyst Awards 2020.

The bank competes among the global leaders in two categories: Best Forex Research and Best Technical Analysis Platform. Dukascopy bank’s JForex 3 aims at winning the reward for best Technical Analysis platform. Meanwhile, Dukascopy Analytics articles compete for the Best Forex Research award.

The final results of the 2020 awards are expected to be announced on April 30.

The recent turmoil has strongly affected the Bullion markets.
After the large price movements, liquidity in XAU/USD and XAG/USD has evaporated and this is causing wide spreads. Our provider price quotations strongly vary or may temporarily cease completely to be available. This can cause rejections and lead to slippage. We encourage our clients to use price control mechanisms of our software including place BID and place OFFER orders. This situation may endure or further deteriorate and we advise to trade with reduced exposures.

Due to increased market turbulence the overnight swap rates became wider and are frequently updated without prior notice to reflect the current interbank rates. Please consider merging hedged positions to avoid risks associated with excessive swap costs. We recommend consulting the swap rates page on a regular basis.

For more detailed information on swap rates, see the following pages:
Overnight Policy for JForex
Overnight Policy for MT4

The limitation will enter into force as of this weekend, 14-15 March 2020 and remain in force until further notice. Dukascopy reserves the right to reconsider special trading conditions for other instruments if found necessary.